Comments on: Enabling and disabling Button instances in Flash with ActionScript 3.0

By: flashCS4

flashCS4 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:13:46 +0000

Yes you can in CS4.. say we have button btnPlay then to disable it…
btnPlay.mouseEnabled = false;

and to enable it..
btnPlay.mouseEnabled = true;

ilike2flash — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:29:04 +0000

I believe there is also a ‘mouseEnabled’ property you can use to enable and disable buttons.

Peter deHaan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:11:32 +0000

Jimbo,

Sorry, it was a typo in my code. I corrected the entry above, but the revised could is:

function clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    var btn:Button = evt.currentTarget as Button;
    btn.label = "Ouch!";
}

Line 2 should have said evt.target instead of event.target.

Thanks,
Peter

Jimbo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:36:11 +0000

When I try this code, I get a compile-time error for line 24: var btn:Button = event.currentTarget as Button;

The error is:

1120:Access of undefined property event.

I am cs4 windows. What am I doing wrong?